placenamesClonshanbo
Cluain Seanbhó
A nineteenth-century parish history records a change in Church of Ireland administration in 1873.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Cluain Seanbhó · Irish · main form
- Clonshanbo · English · main form
Place & story
A parish transferred between unions
Clonshanbo belonged to the Church of Ireland union of Clane when Samuel Lewis described it in 1837. A parish history printed in 1894 records its transfer to Donadea in 1873 under an act passed by the Kildare Synod. The same reorganisation joined Bodenstown and Sherlockstown to Clane. These were changes in ecclesiastical administration; the account does not describe the physical relocation of a church. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Kildare
- Barony
- Ikeathy and Oughterany
- Coordinates
- 53.35411, -6.71030
- Mapped area
- 8.18 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1161 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonshanbo. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Clonshamboe in A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
- Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Clane (1894), parish chronology · W. Sherlock, chronology compiler; Charles W. Gibbs, printer; Kildare Local Studies
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-10-29. How this page was prepared.